URBANA, Ill. (AP) — The University of Illinois announced it has suspended study-abroad programs in Sierra Leone and plans extra screening for students arriving from West Africa in response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
By: Deborah Bayliss - August 7, 2014 10:48 a.m.
Girls from various parts of Illinois, including Chicago’s south and far south side, this summer are participating in a collaborative initiative between ComEd, the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, Girls4Science and the Chicago Urban League, called The Icebox Derby, an educational competition where girls team up to build electric car using a recycled refrigerators and freezers. The six week project is uniquely designed to empower young women to engage in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
By: Deborah Bayliss - August 7, 2014 10:40 a.m.
As promised the Illinois Tollway educational events kicked off Tuesday with three I-PASS roadshow events this month giving residents, business owners and others, opportunities to learn about and provide feedback on the agency’s plans to open a new, all-electronic Tri-State Tollway (I-294)/I-57 Interchange this fall.
By: Deborah Bayliss - August 6, 2014 4:49 p.m.
Residents who live at or near 10729 S. Champlain in Chicago were surprised yesterday morning as several local elected officials gathered on the block to announce $1.5 million in funding from a 2012 national foreclosure settlement to support an affordable historic home revitalization initiative in the Pullman community.
By: Lee Edwards - August 6, 2014 4:32 p.m.
Chicago’s only all-girls public school, Young Women's Leadership Charter School (YWLCS), 2641 S. Calumet Ave., was recognized by the Chicago City Council last week, via a resolution for its academic excellence – most notably for producing a Gates Millennium Scholar for the second consecutive year .
By: Deborah Bayliss - August 6, 2014 3:40 p.m.
Cyclists and nature lovers in Chicago will soon have more space to enjoy their hobbies thanks to the city's plans to transform 278 acres of old industrial property at Big Marsh, 11400 S. Stony Island Ave., the largest individual wetland in the Calumet Open Space, into an eco-friendly recreational area that includes a new bike park.
By: Deborah Bayliss - August 6, 2014 3:06 p.m.
Located at 5001 S. Michigan Ave., Aunt Martha’s Youth Service Center, a state-funded, short-term, facility that is supposed to keep troubled youth safe, has been in the news in recent weeks after it was revealed that kids who were removed from their homes for various reasons and placed in the Center’s care, were leaving the facility past curfew hours, including an 11, 15 and a 19 year-old who all suffered a gunshot wounds last month as they stood outside the facility.
WASHINGTON (AP) — What can President Barack Obama actually do without Congress to change U.S. immigration policies? A lot, it turns out.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a deeply ingrained culture of violence in which guards routinely violate constitutional rights of teenage inmates and subject them to "rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force," the federal government said in a scathing report released Monday.
By: Deborah Bayliss - July 31, 2014 4:18 p.m.
City of Chicago officials and other local organizations reportedly are working to find one or more sites that could hold up to 1,000 beds for hundreds of unaccompanied children migrating from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming year.
By: Lee Edwards - July 31, 2014 3:43 p.m.
South Suburban College’s (SSC) Division of Adult Education is offering new courses for adults to develop core educational skills.
By: Deborah Bayliss - July 31, 2014 3:35 p.m.
Parents and children who live near Broadview, Ill., will soon enjoy a newly renovated Beverly Recreation Center at Cermak Road and 25th Avenue, thanks to $1.2 million bestowed to the Broadview Park District via Ill. Gov. Pat Quinn's capital investment funded Illinois Jobs Now! construction program.
By: Lee Edwards - July 31, 2014 3:27 p.m.
In recognition of Chicago State University (CSU) recently announcing that it will be expanding to Chicago's west side, the Chicago Citizen Newspaper recently spoke with CSU’s West Side Campus Development Project Manager, Bruce Washington, to learn more about the highly anticipated addition to CSU’s educational network.
By: Lee Edwards - July 31, 2014 noon
Throughout the month of August, seven south-side Chicago cultural institutions who have joined forces and who have agreed to now to be collectively called, “Museum Campus South, ” will provide free weekend shuttle service for sightseers who visit the attractions.
Chicago police report one person is dead and another critical after a shooting inside a downtown high-rise office building.
